Ornament : a modern perspective / James Trilling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trilling, James, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament.

Modernism (Art).

Physical Description:

xxi, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2003]

Contents:

1 How Ornament Works 21

2 How Ornament Evolves 47

3 From Function to Meaning: In Search of Universals 71

4 Ornament, Meaning, Symbol: In Search of Specifics 91

Part II Modernism and the Rejection of Ornament

5 The Revolution That Never Happened 119

6 The Flight from Enchantment: Moral and Religious Objections to Ornament 137

7 Anxieties of Industry: Social and Economic Objections to Ornament 169

8 Modernism and the Rebirth of Ornament 201.

Notes:

"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.

ISBN:

0295981482

OCLC:

46472239